Quote Originally Posted by plague View Post
because football starts with the ability to be comfortable and confident with the ball.
all the other stuff can be taught as games become more important.

but if kids get to 15/16 and still cant use both feet then they are in all sorts anyway.

which brings up some fond memories.
a couple of the better kids at that age are really good dribblers, but so one footed its not funny. yet every time they score with poor technique a lot of coaches are too busy celebrating to point out the flaw.

there was one coach i noticed who continually instructed (and applauded) his strikers to hit with the weaker foot when it warranted. 90% of the time the shot was ineffective, and prob on a lot of occasions the kid could have gone around onto his better foot to score.
but if he can get that kid using 2 strong feet by the time hes 12, then he'll be light years ahead of all these "talented" kids scoring more goals today.

it def stood out as a coach making the kids better over results at age 9.
Disagree there Plague
It is poorly taught at a later age as an after thought

It is exactly why we get blokes like Boogaard and Robbie Cornflakes and Tarek Elrich and Alex Wilkinson being less than impressive at defending

Kids need to also be taught to actually tackle and learn the basics of defending also at a young age or we see these piss poor technical flaws again and again at the top level

You look at all 5 goals we conceded at the WC
All honking amatuer defensive errors

Risdon needless going to ground for Griezemanns penalty
Behichs incompetence to not use the correct foot to strike the ball for the oggy
Mooys piss poor tracking on Erikson in the Denmark game
Perus first goal we had 6 defenders back in our box on 3 and the bloke who scored was unmarked Plus the defending from the initial long ball was honking
Perus 2nd goal 6 defenders back in the box on 4 (technically3 due to 1 being massively passive offside and out of the equation) yet the bloke who scores gets a free pass to move to and turn on the ball before firing home

These are glaring technical faults that are not the hardest to fix

#Amatuer hour

All these technical skills you want to learn at being comfortable on the ball are actually increased when the defensive quality and pressure that players are put under is increased

This is why these Dutch Mango suckers have it all wrong

There is no one fix to football in this country like they would have us believe with their shitful 4-3-3 possession tactic as the only metod

It requires a combination of many methods to be successful and their are two components to the game attacking and defending

And it pays to be proficient in both of them to be successful